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  • James Baldwin I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Thornton Wilder I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Bruno Tonioli I am down-to-earth and not one of those starry, up-their-own-butt celebrities.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.
    The Man Who Was Thursday
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Simone Weil I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Edward F. Halifax I am of an Opinion, in which I am every Day more confirmed by Observation, that Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with Men, or else all the Obligations in the World will not create it. An outward Show may be made to satisfy Decency, and to prevent Reproach; but a real Sense of a kind thing is a Gift of Nature, and never was, nor can be acquired.
    Works (1912)
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Marie Curie I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
    Marie Curie
    French physicist, radioactivity pioneer, 2x Nobel Prize winner (1867 - 1934)
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  • William Shakespeare I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.
    Othello I, 1
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Albert J. Nock I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
    The Temple of Death
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Horace Walpole I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Lord George Byron I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Anne Hathaway I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.
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  • Theresa May I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have.
    Theresa May
    British politician (1956 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Mother Teresa I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Alan Turing I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
    Alan Turing
    English mathematician and computer scientist (1912 - 1954)
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